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Black Panther on Base
Read about the Black Panther Movement of the Sixties.
Read the history of the 13th Tactical Fighter Squadron, its patch and it’s black panther.
Read more about Eldridge Cleaver
Bunk Bed Baby
Read President Harry S. Truman's executive order on pregnant women in the military.
See the revised edition of Women in the Military, An Unfinished Business, By Major General Jeanne Holm, USAF (Ret)
Fast Friends
Discovery the urns in the Plain of Jars in the story Laos Keeps Its Urns by Russell Ciochon and Jamie James.
Dept of Defense News Release of Captain Leo Thomas’ and Lieutenant Dan Poynor remains being found in Laos.
For stats on MIA/POW check Department of Defense.
Fighter Pilots Who Are Those Guys
Read Ernest Hemingway’s By-Line: Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades in
What is an Article 15?
Locher's Eagle Award and another account of his rescue.
In 1990, 432nd Tactical Fighter Wing was in Misawa Air Force Base in Japan where Colonel Locher and Colonel DeBellevue would reunite as Vice Wing Commander and Base Commander.
Introduction
Read Vietnam: A History, Stanley Karnow, New York, Viking Press, 1983
Read The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam, Barbara W. Tuchman, Ballantine Books, 1985 in
See story of USS Maddox in U.S. Navy Historical Center
Late Night Intruder
Check out some interesting foods of Thailand
No Turning Back
Read more about the scandal surrounding the IUD called the Dalkon Shield.
Orientation At Udorn Continues
Read about the history of Thailand
Sawadee
Visit the Arlington National Cemetery
Find a name on the National Vietnam Memorial
Sevens, Eights—It’s Too Late
Read the full 19th Amendment to the Constitution that gave women the right to vote. See the actual signed document.
Skit And Tits
Listen to the full What the Captain Means
Learn about how the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) was established and were it is.
Stop the Bombing for Bob
See a wonderful review of Bob Hope’s USO tours.
The Debrief
Read about the history and operations of the 40th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron
Get the full story of the May 10,1972 airstrike in One Day in a Long War by Jeffrey Ethell and Alfred Price. And, see other books on the Vietnam Air War and the pilots that flew the hazards missions.
Read A Thought to Sleep On by John L. Frisbee.
Read about another MiG Killer, who became an Air Force Ace with six MiG kills to his credit Colonel Charles "Chuck" DeBellevue who was Oyster Three on the mission with Roger Locher on the fateful day he got shot down.
Read about Captain Roger
Triple Nickel Delivers
MIG-21 is an advanced supersonic single-engine jet built by Mikoyan-Gurevich Design Bureau. It can travel more than twice the speed of sound and provided a formidable challenge to the F-4 Phantom. For more on the F-4 Phantom, click here.
See the MiG-21 in flight
To read the full story of Kittinger's famous feat and his other aviation accomplishments go to the U.S Centennial Flight Commission report, click here.
Information on POWs
Two More Brass Name Plates
Read about the MiG 19
Welcome to Udorn
Read history of Air Force Academy and when women entered in 1976.
Read about the history of Military Women pilots
Read about the Air Bases in Thailand during the Vietnam War.
Whistle Blower
Read about Sergeant Lonnie Franks, the young man who blow the whistle on the illegal air strikes.
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